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Licenses : Open Source and CopyLeft Licenses

A collection of open source and copyleft licenses.

1. DefinitionsAuthor/s: the creator/s of an original work or the creator/s of a derivative work.Broadcasting: the use of any means of distribution over a distance, such as telegraph, telephone, radio, television and other comparable media, including communication to the public by satellite and cable retransmission.Derivative work: a work based upon another work/s.Distribution: the marketing, the placing in circulation or the making available to the public, by whatever means and for whatever purpose, of a work or of copies thereof.Elaboration: all forms of modification, adaptation and transformation of a work.Lending: the making available for use of originals, of copies or of carriers of copyright works, for a limited period of time ...

Code derived from the document "Report on the Programming Language Haskell 2010", is distributed under the following license: Copyright (c) 2010 Simon Marlow The authors intend this Report to belong to the entire Haskell community, and so we grant permission to copy and distribute it for any purpose, provided that it is reproduced in its entirety, including this Notice. Modified versions of this Report may also be copied and distributed for any purpose, provided that the modified version is clearly presented as such, and that it does not claim to be a definition of the Haskell 2010 Language.

CeCILL-B FREE SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT Notice This Agreement is a Free Software license agreement that is the result of discussions between its authors in order to ensure compliance with the two main principles guiding its drafting: firstly, compliance with the principles governing the distribution of Free Software: access to source code, broad rights granted to users, secondly, the election of a governing law, French law, with which it is conformant, both as regards the law of torts and intellectual property law, and the protection that it offers to both authors and holders of the economic rights over software. The authors of the CeCILL-B1 license are: Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique - ...

The agreement below gives the TeX Users Group (TUG) the right to sublicense, and grant such sublicensees the right to further sublicense, any or all of the rights enumerated below. TUG hereby does so sublicense all such rights, irrevocably and in perpetuity, to any and all interested parties. --Karl Berry, TUG President, on behalf of the TeX Users Group board and members 17 November 2006 http://tug.org/fonts/utopia ------------------------------------------------------------ October 11, 2006 RE: License to TeX Users Group for the Utopia Typeface Adobe Systems Incorporated ("Adobe") hereby grants to the TeX Users Group and its members a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual license to the typeface software for the Ut...

Version 2.1 dated 2013-06-21 Notice This Agreement is a Free Software license agreement that is the result of discussions between its authors in order to ensure compliance with the two main principles guiding its drafting: firstly, compliance with the principles governing the distribution of Free Software: access to source code, broad rights granted to users, secondly, the election of a governing law, French law, with which it is conformant, both as regards the law of torts and intellectual property law, and the protection that it offers to both authors and holders of the economic rights over software. The authors of the CeCILL (for Ce[a] C[nrs] I[nria] L[ogiciel] L[ibre]) license are: Commissariat à l'é...

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